Taking Pictures

This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.

"...The Museum of Modern Art/Callaway Editions, 224 pp., $60..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...in the nation may feel like a natural aspect of life here, like live oaks or Barton Springs, but..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...cultural heroes. They are individuals who have founded local arts institutions and nurtured their development, pioneered forms of creative..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540'

A traveling exhibition of prints places Augsburg at the center of artistic innovation

"...Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr., 512/471-7324..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Arts Review by Andy Campbell

Day Trips

Exhibit explores history of altered photographs

"...The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exhibit, "Faking it: Manipulated Photo­graphy..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters @ 3AM

Cyberspace is nowhere and everywhere, a place where the articles on www.michaelventura.org hover and hang, nailed to a virtual wall like paintings in a museum

"...This John is John Densmore of the Doors. We met in the Eighties at a..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Gay New York: Sappho at the Met

Andy gets lesbianic in The Big City.

"...digits for the 30th day in a row I started planning my escape…..."

July 23, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Hall Overhaul

A renovated Bass reopens to a world much changed in the 20 months the venue was closed

"...Yes, before the Long Center for the Performing Arts opened, Austin had this 3,000-seat venue that regularly played..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Our country's newest immigrant generation is no longer learning that this nation will belong to them

"...is no news to anyone that the fundamental nature of this country is changing in more ways, and on..."

July 9, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Chronicle Recommends: Films About Fashion

Get glamorous with our favorite catwalk flicks

"...month, the Chronicle's film critics select a theme and offer movie recommendations. With the fabulously stylish documentary, The Gospel..."

June 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

"...Young poets like to believe that prose is undeniably artless in comparison to their own work, and that a..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Review by David Garza

SXSW Eco: Beyond the Burlap Bag

Environmentalists ponder how to mainstream eco-culture

"...problem: burlap bags. Or rather, as Graceann Bennett, managing partner at Ogilvy & Mather, told the audience at the..."

Oct. 10, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Venus: Shocking Blue & Cabanel

The Shocking Blue scores Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus

"...top, Was burning like a silver flame. The summit of beauty and love, And Venus was her name. Looks..."

July 20, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Other Box Sets

"...books in them. They carry titles like The Gifts of the Magi, Gold: A Book and Kit, and Ancient..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Courting Change

Travis County needs a new civil and family courthouse – and a new way of doing business

"...lot at Third and Guadalupe sits in the middle of an area checkered with skyscrapers. The site is not..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

High Plains Chamber

The Harrington String Quartet, which makes its third appearance with the Austin Chamber Music Center's annual summer festival in July, is based in Amarillo, and though that may not seem like a likely spot for a chamber music ensemble, the members of the Harrington Quartet feel quite at home on the range.

"...Amarillo is in that part of Texas that gets overlooked. Not so many people..."

July 11, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

The Thomas Crown Affair

"...lackadaisical, uninspired manner? Not only is it a remake of a Steve McQueen film, which automatically puts two strikes..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dana Friis-Hansen

The former AMOA director is hired to lead the Grand Rapids Art Museum

"...possesses, you wouldn't expect Dana Friis-Hansen to be out of work long – and you'd be right. Not five..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art

AMOA's shows rejoice over blurred lines between interested corporate marketing and disinterested beauty

"...Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art/Everyday Objects: Extra-Ordinary Austin Designs..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

After a Fashion

Stephen sure is getting around, hobnobbing with the bigwigs and taking in all of the faboo fall fashion fetes

"...Ay-yi-yi, what a nightmare it is at the corner of Riverside and Congress with major construction estimated to last..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Articulations

More money for the Long Center, more art for AMOA, and more national exposure for a Flaming Idiot.

"...Arts Dollar Watch..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...There’s plenty of holiday cheer to go around as we make plans..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Downtown's New Year

"...blows past, but others are bent on raising more roof beams in 2003. Overall, there does seem to be..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Three bonds proposals up on the city ballot Nov. 7 may strike a sense of deja vu in longtime Austinites.

"...a conference in this hayseed town, and the waters of Barton Springs run murkier than ever. So the managed..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Off the Desk

"...PR firm which is home to the new Chamber of Commerce chief Kerry Tate, recruited one of Austin's finest..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

Short Cuts

Marc Savlov courses through the Central Texas festival circuit.

"...Lesbian International Film Festival, which is screening at the Metropolitan theatre as we go to press (check out the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...Film programming is an important part of every respectable museum calendar, and our Austin Museum..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Column

Visiting Austin on a Budget

See the city and still afford your flight home

"...Whether you want access to Lady Bird Lake or Barton Springs, enough land for the kids to run around..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Chronolog Post by Cody Song

UT's Public Arts Program Debuts an Ambitious New Project

Landmarks presents Ann Hamilton’s O N E E V E R Y O N E at the Dell Medical School

"...the floral-patterned PJs covering her slight frame, just blurs of color caught in the obscuring embrace of a great..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playing for the People

More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

"...The article "Bohemian Rhapsody: Patti Smith's 12-Year Take," about photographer Steven..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

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